Independent Enterprise
December 08, 1955
Keith Anderson, Prominent Citizen Passes Sunday
Keith K. Anderson, 47, prominent Payette business man and civic leader, passed away suddenly of a heart attack early Sunday morning at an Ontario hospital. He was stricken with the attack about 1:30 a.m. and was rushed to the hospital were he died about an hour later.
Mr. Anderson was a long time resident of Payette having moved here with hsi parents in 1912. He was active in many activities of the community where he served in recent years as secretary of several irrigation districts and companies and had become an expert in this phase of the agricultural industry.
He was secretary of the chamber of commerce for several years and was a past president of the Kiwanis club. He served for many years as an officer in Washoe lodge No. 28, AF and AM and was a Shriner.
He was born March 17, 1908, in Taylorville, Ill. was educated here and was married in 1939 in Ontario to Anna Bel Biggs.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Anderson are two children Keith K. Jr., and Luanne Anderson, both at home; three brothers, T. R. Anderson of Glendale, Calif., Howard R. of San Luis Obispo, Calif., and J. Wheeler Anderson of Gaston, Ore., and three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Hafliger of Taylorville and Mrs. Anna C. Moss and Miss Ruth Anderson, both of Payette.
Services were conducted at the Baptist church Wednesday at 10 a.m. The Rev. Bert Iddins officiated and interment was at Riverside under the direction of Shaffer Memory Chapel.
